Synopsis: In his teaching and his writing, Paul L. Holmer
(1916-2004), Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota
(1946-1960) and Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at
Yale Divinity School (1960-1987), made many important contributions
to recent American theology. One of the most insightful American
students of Kierkegaard of his generation, Holmer perceived early
on Wittgenstein's importance for theology, and employed both
thinkers to inspire his own fresh consideration of perennial issues
in philosophical theology: understanding, belief, faith, the
emotions, and the importance of the virtues. While best known for
his essays in The Grammar of Faith (1978), Holmer penned numerous
other interesting and original essays, some published but many
unpublished, which circulated widely in typescript during his
tenure at Yale. Following his death, the Holmer family in 2005
donated his papers to the Yale Divinity School Library; in
reviewing Holmer's papers, the editors have chosen a selection of
his most seminal essays, beyond those in The Grammar of Faith,
demonstrating the breadth and range of his contributions. In this,
the second volume of The Paul L. Holmer Papers, the editors present
pieces that illuminate four significant areas of Holmer's
contributions: essays on Kierkegaard; essays on Wittgenstein;
Theology, Understanding, and Faith; and Emotions, Passions, and
Virtues. Taken together, these essays invite in-depth exploration
of the thought of this important American philosophical theologian.
This is the second volume of The Paul L. Holmer Papers, which
includes also volume 1, On Kierkegaard and Truth: Selected Essays,
and volume 3, Communicating the Faith Indirectly: Selected Sermons,
Addresses, and Prayers. Endorsement: "Disciplined by a careful,
undogmatic appropriation of Wittgenstein's later achievements, Paul
Holmer may just be the best balanced and most plainspoken expositor
of Kierkegaard's ethical-religious thought in the English language
to date. Holmer was an outstanding teacher, and this collection is
a treasure for those privileged to hear his lectures and for those
who did not." -Robert L. Perkins Professor Emeritus of Philosophy
Stetson University, DeLand, Florida "This collection of previously
published and unpublished essays by Paul L. Holmer on a wide range
of topics demonstrates his incisive thought and writing on some of
the perplexing 'knots of understanding' in philosophy and theology,
which he sought to untie with exceptional acuity and conceptual
clarity by way of Kierkegaard, Wittgenstein, and his own pioneering
efforts in the rehabilitation of virtue ethics in our time."
-Sylvia Walsh Scholar in Residence Stetson University Editor
Biography: David J. Gouwens is Professor of Theology at Brite
Divinity School. He is the author of Kierkegaard's Dialectic of the
Imagination (1989) and Kierkegaard as Religious Thinker (1996). Lee
C. Barrett III is Stager Professor of Theology at Lancaster
Theological Seminary. He is the author of The Heidelberg Catechism
(2007), Foundations of Modern Theology: Kierkegaard (2009), and
co-editor of Kierkegaard and the Bible (2010).
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